Making Fictions — Workshop

Brief: Joseph Popper

Making Fictions introduces methods of prototyping and storytelling in a playful, hands-on way. The workshop encourages and educates a process of thinking-through-making, offering a chance to jump quickly into large scale production and also to experiment with methods and techniques for fiction filmmaking.

Responding to a given story outline, the students work in groups to build detailed, 1:1 scale film sets out of simple materials, such as cardboard, before making their own individual short films. The sets are made rapidly yet ambitiously, creating immersive environments with high levels of detail. Upon completion, the sets are then used as narrative environments for acting out or animating different sequences on camera - hinting towards wider, imagined worlds. Through collaborative, ambitious making the students are able to accomplish impressive, immersive spaces and create rich, engaging moving imagery.